Monday, January 28, 2013

Murder, revenge, and secrets: Shakespeare has arrived in
Providence, Ohio...

Charlotte Bessette—owner of Fromagerie Bessette, known
by locals as The Cheese Shop—has a lot on her plate:
setting a date with her fiancé, feeding the actors in
her grandmother’s production of Hamlet, and planning
the menu for her best friend and cousin’s upcoming
wedding. At least her new creation—sinfully delicious
Brie blueberry ice cream—has turned out perfectly.

Just days before the wedding, a stranger turns up dead in
the Igloo Ice Cream Parlor’s freezer, his head bashed
with a container of Charlotte’s signature ice cream.
But this stranger turns out to be more than he seems, and
his death threatens to unravel all that Charlotte has worked
for. She has no choice but to add one more thing to her
to-do list: find the killer before the villain destroys all
that she loves.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Avery Aames is the pseudonym for Daryl Wood Gerber.
As Avery, she signed her first three-book publishing
contract with Berkley Prime Crime and is writing A Cheese
Shop Mystery series, the first of which, The Long
Quiche Goodbye, will appear July 2010. The series is
set in idyllic Holmes County, Ohio, and features Charlotte
Bessette, a feisty cheese shop owner with a colorful
extended family.

Daryl has also had short stories published and she created
the format for the successful TV series Out of this World
that ran for four years in first-run syndication. Daryl
podcasts some of her suspense/thriller work on her website.
She is a member of Sisters in Crime, its internet group Guppies, Mystery
Writers of America, Romance Writers of America and the International Thriller Writers Association.

Prior to writing, Daryl was an actress in Los Angeles. A
fun tidbit for mystery buffs: she co-starred on the popular
series, Murder, She Wrote and Matlock. Daryl graduated from
Stanford University. She enjoys golfing, swimming,
photography, gardening, gourmet cooking, and has been known
to jump out of a perfectly good airplane.

She has been happily married for over twenty-five years and
has an adorable mutt named Max and a grown son who has flown
the coop.

AN EXCERPT FROM TO BRIE OR NOT TO BRIE:

CHAPTER 1“Charlotte Bessette, you’re a goner.” A blissful moan escaped my lips. Had I died and gone toheaven? I took another bite of the ciabatta, spinach, and goat cheese crostini—one of manyappetizers sitting on the granite counter in The Cheese Shop kitchen—and sighed again. Addingminced sun-dried tomatoes to the recipe had done the trick.

I downed the remainder of the scrumptious morsel and eyed the array that I had started atsix a.m. The jalapeños packed with mascarpone and seasoned with Cajun spices had nearlyseared the roof of my mouth, but the ricotta-stuffed mushrooms were a good balance. All in all,the experiment was a success. I had at least ten winning choices for the taste testing.

As I collected cartons of cream to use in the desserts I planned to make, I paused. Did Ismell smoke?

I tore out of the walk-in refrigerator. Flames not only licked upward from the sauté panon the stove, they spiraled from the twenty-five-pound bag of flour beside it.

“Fire!” I yelled to no one. I was alone in the shop. Lured by the ciabatta crostini, I hadforgotten that I was frying shallots for one more dish. “Shoot, shoot, shoot.” I hadn’t patted theshallots dry enough. Water must have boiled a spit of oil out of the pan, which caught fire andnailed the flour bag.

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